Prison Writings
A collection of essays documenting my 1,300 days of incarceration, in the order they were originally written.
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Cellmate: Finding out what could possibly go wrong when you’re placed directly into a state prison’s gang unit during a massive corruption investigation.
only a little while here: Written after a year in prison, back before either all of my friends had become corpses, or I had become a corpse to them, this letter captures the last vestiges of optimism I had.
missing my seeing-eye goat: A letter home to a bunch of people I thought were my friends, about someone else I also mistakenly took for a friend.
the purgatory of a parole saga: Back when the Rio Olympics were just a few weeks away, I was waiting for the revelation of something much more mundane than the origins of a global pandemic.
still so cold: Written from my prison cell in the winter of 2017.
our lives are not our own: Reflections on my incarceration written from my last prison cell, a comprehensive application of modern scientific theory to America's social disorder.
On my four-year Arrest-o'-versary: From Harvard to the Big House: Christmastime stories about my 1,300 days of incarceration which attempt to make sense of the hopeless madness of America's prison system.
1,300 days later: Originally written and published in October of 2018, this reflects on what it was like trying to re-enter a society that seemed extremely tentative about having any interest in taking me back.
the velveteen pervert: Coming home from prison was supposed to be a new start. Instead, it was a lesson in the true nature of the society that'd already chosen to discard me the moment I was arrested.
